How to give apache permission to write to home directory?

As your file residing in your Home directory, I would suggest one of following approaches.

1. Give 0777 permission to file itself.

   chmod 0777 /home/djameson/test.txt
   

2. Change Ownership to apache user www-data and give owner-write permission.

   sudo chown www-data:www-data /home/djameson/test.txt
   chmod 0744 /home/djameson/test.txt
   

3. Add your user to www-data group or vice-verse add www-data user to your group. And then group write permission.

   sudo usermod -a -G www-data djameson
   chmod 0764 /home/djameson/test.txt
   

NOTE : I am assuming apache user name & group name is www-data & www-data respectively. You must change accordingly your server apache username/group name.

By default, Apache on Ubuntu runs as www-data.

Let's assume your folder is located in /var/www/mysite.

You can do this:

chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/mysite

chmod -R og-r

/var/www/mysite After doing this, www-data (the Web server) will have full access to the site's files, while other non-root users will have no access at all.

If you wish to allow select users to access the site, you can make the folder group-readable and add those users to the group www-data.

Set correct permissions on your apache files